Blaser Quotes & Sayings

Canada's most important
that is to say consequential
modern voice. — Robin Blaser

In a June 25, 2010, Washington Post article, the CIA acknowledged officially
discussing the creation of a video of a fake Saddam Hussein having sex with a
teenage boy in order to discredit him in the eyes of the Iraqi people. Evidently,
the Agency did create a video of a fake Osama Bin Laden drinking liquor
around a campfire with his cronies, bragging about their conquests of young
boys. The article quoted an anonymous former CIA officer "chuckling" at the
memory, and declaring that the actors used in the video were drawn from
"some of us darker-skinned employees." These ridiculous clandestine ideas
brought to mind the childish efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro forty years
earlier. — Donald Jeffries

In 1850, one in four American babies died before his or her first birthday. — Martin J. Blaser

One thing I can say about George ... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. — Barbara Bush

Because I'm an English ninja," Tanith replied. "We're just like regular ninjas, except we wear leather and flirt more. — Derek Landy

We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.
Your attitude is your choice! — Lorii Myers

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you. — Epictetus

You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Along with better training, pediatricians need better pay. Paradoxically, physicians involved in the primary care of our children - the doctors on the front lines who receive tens of thousands of visits every day from parents and their children - are among the lowest paid of all physicians in the United States. Something is wrong with our system when the doctor who performs a brief diagnostic procedure - some form of X-ray, for example, or a fifteen-minute operation - is paid many times more than the doctors making crucial decisions about our children's health. — Martin J. Blaser

I do not wish to ban antibiotics or Cesarian sections any more than anyone would suggest banning automobiles. I ask only that they be used more wisely and that antidotes to their worst side effects be developed. The truth is always obvious in retrospect. How could people really have thought that the sun revolves around Earth or that Earth is flat? Yet dogma are powerful and to their adherents infallible. — Martin J. Blaser

I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
-Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967) — Robin Blaser

I wanted to call you, but I find myself feeling ... awkward when it comes to you."
"'Awkward' is the word du jour," I agreed. "So, I make you nervous?"
"Not quite nervous," he said. "Just unsettled."
I wriggled my eyebrows and inched a little closer to him. "Unsettled, that's even better. — Molly Harper

We think that cutting routine office visits to twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, even ten minutes will save money when in fact, with less time for doctors to examine and less time to think, we are incurring far greater costs through excessive testing and needless treatment. — Martin J. Blaser

Bacterial specialization is a thrilling and largely unexplored realm in uncovering what makes each of us distinct in terms of — Martin J. Blaser

Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

to know how tall a tree is
I must fall from the top;
that is,
desire burns. — Robin Blaser

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub. — John Niven

I'm not like you. I've never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people's feelings. All I've ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met. — Rachel E. Carter

Pathologists and physicians need to recognize that "inflammation" of the stomach is normal. — Martin J. Blaser

Why am I doing this all over again? Waiting for him to choose me. — Abby McDonald

We can pay now to prevent or we can pay later to treat. — Martin J. Blaser

I'm gay. I know things. — Kristin Cast

My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. — Jonathan Dimbleby

As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is inevitable. — Martin J. Blaser

I don't want to forget the last time you touched me. — Haruki Murakami

Microbes are invisible to our naked eye, with a few exceptions that reinforce the rule. Millions can fit into the eye of a needle. But if you were to gather them all up, not only would they outnumber all the mice, whales, humans, birds, insects, worms, and trees combined - indeed all of the visible life-forms we are familiar with on Earth - they would outweigh them as well. Think about that for a moment. Invisible microbes comprise the sheer bulk of the Earth's biomass, more than the mammals and reptiles, all the fish in the sea, the forests. — Martin J. Blaser

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned — Paul Laurence Dunbar